by Anonymous
Have you ever told a white lie? You are going
to love this, especially all of the ladies who
bake for church events: Alice Grayson was to
bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies'
Group in Tuscaloosa , but
forgot to do it until the last minute. She
remembered it the morning
of the bake sale and after rummaging through
cabinets, found an angel
food cake mix & quickly made it while drying
her hair, dressing, and
helping her son pack up for Scout camp.
When she took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured and she exclaimed, "Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake!" This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church, and in her new community of friends.
So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of The cake.. She found it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and then covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect. And, before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30 and to buy the cake and bring it home.
When the
daughter arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect
cake
had already been sold. Amanda grabbed her cell phone & called
her mom.
Alice was horrified-she was beside herself! Everyone would
know! What
would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about,
ridiculed!
All
night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing
fingers at her and talking about her behind her back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to
think about
the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at
the home
of a fellow church member and try to have a good time. She did
not really want to attend because the hostess was a snob who
more than
once had looked down her nose at the fact that Alice was a
single
parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa , but
having
already RSVP'd , she couldn't think of a believable excuse to
stay
home..
The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust
old
south and to Alice 's horror, the cake in question was
presented for dessert!
Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the
cake! She
started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but
before
she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, "what a
beautiful
cake!" Alice , still stunned, sat back in her chair when she
heard the
hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, "Thank you, I
baked
it myself."
Alice smiled and thought to herself, "God is good."